edX experienced a minor incident on August 21, 2025 affecting Student Courseware, lasting 4h 32m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Student Courseware
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 21, 2025, 07:05 PM UTC
As of approximately 6 p.m. UTC, edX systems including but not necessarily limited to the learner dashboard and the in-course experience are experiencing slower performance than is typical. We are currently investigating the cause of this issue.
- resolved Aug 21, 2025, 11:38 PM UTC
The latency issues across edX have been resolved and all services should now be operating normally. The issues appear to have been caused by one of our service providers, Cloudflare, which experienced degraded performance today, impacting applications across the internet.